#deerhoof

[accidental-memory]

A few weeks ago, after Spotify announced it will be pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the AI drone weapon technologies of Helsing (for which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is chairman), the bands Deerhoof and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard pulled all of their music from the streaming service. Xiu Xiu is working to join them.

A few days ago, Godspeed You! Black Emperor pulled their music from every streaming service except for their Bandcamp page, which is managed directly by their record company Constellation.

Incidentally here is the art their album Yanqui U.X.O. came packaged in, illustrating how a large portion of the music industry feeds its funds directly into defense industries.

From Wikipedia: "The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate."

Spotify, not included in this image because it did not exist at the time, is worse.

One of GY!BE's record companies, Constellation, has pulled itself from Twitter/X, leaving this middle finger of a farewell message:

[technofeudalism]

"I was so proud of my 88- and 89-year-old parents for wanting to join yesterday's demonstration, and join the well-intentioned movement against oligarchy and fascism. It felt great to be surrounded by such an enormous number and broad range of strangers who all shared the same outrage towards the current administration. The shouts and horn-honking were very heartening. If nothing else, it showed how many of us there are.

At the same time, there was a strong contingent who enjoyed the camaraderie and performative aspect, but ironically reduced the sense that any real change might result. For example, the Harris "I'm Speaking" t-shirts celebrating her famous dismissal of Democrats warning she would lose the election if she didn't adopt a better policy on genocide and war crime. Or signs celebrating Cory Booker, who has a long history of Trump-like positions on AIPAC and public education. Or signs celebrating Joe Biden, whose climate policy centered around building more Tesla charging stations. To me this contingent lent the demonstration a defeatist undertone.

Two clues that this "anti-oligarchy" demonstration posed no real threat to oligarchy (or capital, militarism, or the police state) were that they were widely advertised and covered by oligarch-owned media, and at least in Tucson, there was zero police presence. Compare this to many demonstrations in recent years that actually have posed a threat to capital, militarism, oligarchy or the police state. Even when they are perfectly peaceful and organized by Jews, they are deemed "terrorist" and "anti-Semitic", met with instant and overwhelming police attacks and arrests, while being ignored by oligarch-owned media.

Democrats seem to be responding to Republican radicalism by attempting to re-frame themselves as the Conservative party, calling for the Republican changes to stop, and for a return to the "normalcy" of last year. This is obviously a losing strategy, supported only by a shrinking white middle class that still benefits from such "normalcy." This strategy proposed to simply recreate the exact conditions that led to mass disillusionment and the election of a Hitler-esque candidate.

Many wondered aloud how there could even still be any Trump supporters, considering the violence he's doing to the people, institutions, and norms of the country and the world. This forgets that in order to support someone, you don't have to agree with everything they do. You only have to be tricked into believing that there are only two possible choices and that your person is better than the alternative.

I remind liberals what they were willing to overlook in order to display Biden or Harris bumper stickers and yard signs last year: record levels of poverty and homelessness, record deportations, record military budget, record fossil fuel profits, record transfer of wealth to billionaires, constant lies, and a literal genocide. All because "we have no other choice and this is better than the alternative." Not so different in mindset from the "incomprehensible" Trump holdouts.

Democrats and Republicans are not identical. But they are two factions of a capitalist/militarist/oligarchic/fascist ideology that stands for mass deportation, mass incarceration, mass poverty, mass transfer of wealth to billionaires, lobbying, ignoring public opinion, privatization of human needs, forever war, arms dealing, nuclear weapons, crime, segregation, apartheid, land theft, genocide, violent crackdowns on dissent, and putting fossil fuel profit above human survival.

It is one thing to oppose this capitalist/militarist/oligarchic/fascist ideology. It is another to say "I'm ok with this ideology, as long as I'm the beneficiary and someone else is the victim." The latter is the mantra of brainwashed American political cheerleaders of both major parties. But you will never stamp out fascism by insisting on no change of course for the defeated opposition party, no third party, no revolution. Stamping out fascism will probably require something more radical and bold, something that would dramatically improve people's worsening material conditions."

— Deerhoof / Greg Saunier

[bestalbumcover]

Round 1:

Which COVER do you like better?

Future Teenage Cave Artists (Deerhoof)

Parallel Lines (Blondie)

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

Remember you're voting for the cover artwork NOT the musical content or artist!

[octorimi]

my dream supergroup!!

[ometochtli2rabbit]

MAYA:

13.0.13.7.9

lajun[10] MULUK|TOJ [water] - wuk[7] KUMKU

galactic tone: manifestation

sun sign: OFFERING| shark/red/east

offer appreciation for all creation

NAHUA:

mahtlactli [10] - ATL [water]

Tezcatlipoca | Xiuhtecuhtli

tecolotl [great horned owl]

lord of the night: Centeotl

trecena [10]: Huehuecoyotl

xiuhpohualli: ce[1] - HUEITECUILTONTLI [greater feast day]

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"The Creation of God", Harmonia Rosales, 2017

"Earth’s Creation 1", Emily Kame Kngwarreye, 1994

"Creation and Destruction", Nina Tokhtaman Valetova, 2009

"Six days of creation" Hildegard of Bingen, 12th C

"Creation with astral rays", Remedios Varo, 1955

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Xiuhtecuhtli is the Turquoise Lord, Lord of the Year, God of Fire, creator of all life.

These are songs that mention CREATION:

Deerhoof Ft Awkwafina: Your Dystopic Creation Doesn't Fear You

Jhene Aiko: Oblivion (Creation)

Carpenters: Top of the World

The Pierces: Creation

Carole King: You're Something New

Phoebe Bridgers: I Know the End

burningspearmusic: Creation

Immortal Technique: Creation and Destruction

Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation

D'Angelo: The Root

Lauryn Hill: Lost Ones

Bee Gees: Alone

Spinal Tap: Rock and Roll Creation

Gordon Lightfoot: Summertime Dream

Manic Street Preachers: Die in the Summertime

Smashing Pumpkins: Cyr

of Montreal: Upon Settling on the Frozen Island, Lecithin Presents Claude and Coquelicot with His Animal Creations for Them to Approve or Reject

Gojira: My Last Creation

Glen Campbell: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Sublime: Roots of Creation

Andrew WK: The Creation of Sound

Yves Tumor: Role in Creation

Silversun Pickups: Creation Lake

Stereo MCs: Creation

Alice Cooper: Brutal Planet

Rush: The Twilight Zone

Kris Kristofferson: Holy Creation

Yes: Release, Release

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Souvenir

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication

Jackson Browne: Before the Deluge

A Tribe Called Quest: Buggin' Out

Metallica: Hardwired

The Jam: All Around the World

Iron Maiden: Out of the Silent Planet

Judas Priest: Dawn of Creation

Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe & Computer God

Marvin Gaye: I'd Give My Life for You

Bob Marley: Exodus & Revolution

Bruce Springsteen: How Can I Keep from Singing?

Stevie Wonder: Earth's Creation

Sister Nancy: Bam Bam

Peter Tosh: Creation

Bob Dylan: I and I & Queen Jane Approximately

George Harrison: Dear One

Depeche Mode: Macro & Puppets

Waylon Jennings: Thanks

Cab Calloway: My Gal Mezzanine

Emmy the Great: Creation

Queen Latifah: A King and Queen Creation

Nina Simone: Sunday on Savannah

Joy Harjo: The Creation Story

[pam3pr]

Deerhoof performing at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, August 13th, 2006

[mechaneondemon73]

A Kill Rock Stars mix but DESPITE RELEASING IN 2003 THERES NO XIU XIU ON IT… YOU HAD KNIFE PLAY AND MAYBE A PROMISE (I DIDNT CHECK) TO WORK WITH. W Deerhoof and Unwound though

The rest of the haul btw

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 05.31.25

Model / Actriz Pirouette (Dirty Hot) Melvins Thunderball (Ipecac) Sparks Mad (Transgressive) Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Tall Tales (Warp) Anders Brodsgard performed by Odense Symphony Orchestra Galaxy (Dacapo Open Space) Tod Dockstader & James Reichert Omniphony 1 (ReR) Keith Fullerton Whitman MEAKUSMA (Generators) Sextile Yes Please (Sacred Bones) Group 180 The Songs Of Maldoror (Hungaropop) Julia Wolfe Cruel Sister (Canteloupe) McLusky The world Is still here and so are we (Ipecac) Ror (Gyða Valtýsdóttir & Úlfur) Auga (Sono Luminus) Huang Ruo / ICE Chamber Concerto Cycle (Naxos) Seefeel Squared Roots (Warp) Deerhoof Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise)